Windsor Locks Should Never Have Settled With Koistinen

I am responding to the article about former police Sgt. Robert Koistinen receiving a payment from the town of Windsor Locks to settle his lawsuit [March 18, Page 1, "Voters Approve Deal For Officer"]. I agree that some lawsuits are very expensive and worth settling, but this was a fight that should have gone 12 rounds.

Here you have a police sergeant on the night that his son, (also a police officer) drinks all day, drives and kills a kid, and he removes his son from the scene of the accident, takes him to a hospital and refuses to allow officers from the regional accident reconstruction team take his son's blood. Any civilian who did this would have been convicted on numerous charges, including impeding an investigation and leaving the scene of an accident.

Yes, Robert Koistinen was charged and acquitted, but the police and the town of Windsor Locks and the public in general know what happened.

It is ludicrous that not only was Robert Koistinen set free, but then he gets awarded more money in a settlement than the teenager who was killed. The town of Windsor Locks should have fought this until the end and not given in regardless of the cost. It appears that the victim, Henry Dang, was victimized more than once in this case.